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Creating a tiny version of a coaxial cable, researchers at the University of California San Diego create smallest laser to date, an advance that could lead to optical computer chips or high-resolution displays....

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Physicist Dmitri Krioukov probably isn't the first person to talk his way out of a traffic ticket, but the University of California researcher got a $400 charge dropped by writing a paper asserting that the cop who pulled him over hadn't actually caught him driving through a stop sign....

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Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley claim to have hit upon a counterintuitive means of boosting the efficiency of flatplate solar cells by making them emit light. "What we demonstrated is that the better a solar cell is at emitting photons, the higher its voltage and the greater the...

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The University of California at Berkeley plans to offer a class on big data to its undergraduate students during the coming fall semester, focused specifically on data analysis as applied to Twitter’s never-ending flow of information. In the company’s first official joint effort with a higher-ed institution, Twitter engineers will...

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Researchers at the University of California's Viterbi School of Engineering have developed an artificial finger which can detect texture. Dubbed BioTac, the sensor was co-funded by the Keck Futures Initiative of the National Academy of Sciences, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Science Foundation....

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College is stuck in the past, and tech is always trying to tow it out of the mud. The trick is finding a solution that provides more access to higher education, improves the learning experience, and enables future improvement, instead of miring college in some company's proprietary system. Coursera...

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave crucial testimony at the Eolas hearing, in just one of many cases seen as commercial threats to developersIn the first week of February, Sir Tim Berners-Lee stood in front of a jury in east Texas. His task was daunting: he had to invalidate a set of...

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NASA announced today that it has begun testing a GPS system designed to locate the precise position of serious earthquakes within the western US. Known as the Real-time Earthquake Analysis for Disaster (READI) Mitigation Network, the system gathers GPS data from more than 500 locations across California, Oregon, and...

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Despite the countless criticisms lobbed at Facebook over privacy and the myriad studies lamenting how it’s making us more narcissistic, lonely and generally worse at human interaction, the world’s largest social network might actually help us re-learn how to be nice in an increasingly impersonal world. The genie is out...

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The app development world went into a frenzy, when social network app Path was caught uploading user’s address book information without asking for permission last week. We’ve already given our view on the matter, but yesterday, Forbes reported on a study by University of California at Santa Barbara that found Cydia apps...

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Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have managed to turn the world's fastest camera into a tool for spotting cancer cells. Described as a "high-throughput flow-through optical microscope," the device was originally developed back in 2009, but has since been updated with real-time image processing and advanced...

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Drupal-based content management startup Pantheon has raised a $5 million first round of funding from Foundry Group and a few others to help move enterprise website management to the cloud, the company announced today. As we’ve written before, Pantheon wants to help companies get rid of their in-house content...

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For many American consumers mobile payments are still something to run away from--and fast.That's what research from the University of California has turned up. A new study there implies that shoppers in the U.S. aren't yet ready for the mobile payment movement. A large percentage of the American citizens questioned in...

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University of California, Riverside researchers have embarked on a study to determine if facial recognition software can identify unknown subjects in historical works of art. With an initial grant of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, they will attempt to adapt facial recognition tech to account for...

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Open University has crossed the 50M download threshold on iTunes U, neck and neck with Stanford, which also crossed the 50M mark, reports Jim Dalrymple of The Loop. This marks 10M downloads of Open University content on iTunes U since it became the first to hit the 40M mark in October...

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Photo by Flickr user Meanest Indian Apple defended its decision to withdraw from green product registry EPEAT by saying the company uses its own environmental metrics that surpass those measured by EPEAT. Apple also argued that it goes beyond the rest of the industry by posting the details of...

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Google has long provided an API for automating Google Analytics, but it required developers to jump through a few more hoops than many would like. Yesterday, the company announced its Easy Dashboard Library, which should let developers speed up custom-tailored dashboards and reports. Prior to the library, getting things...

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Earlier this week researchers from the University of California, Berkeley took to the Sacramento River to deploy a fleet of 100 robotic mobile sensors to gather real-time data about the river. The Floating Sensor Project, as it's called, is hoping to replace traditional fixed water sensors with something that's...

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A new survey by law professors at the University of California at Berkeley suggests that most Americans are uneasy with the idea that their phones could divulge behavioral and personal information to merchants....

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New mobile payment solutions are launching left and right, but if a study from the University of California, Berkeley is any indication, Americans aren't quite ready to start paying with their phones. According to the study — which surveyed 1,203 "adult internet users" in the US and was fully...

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University of California, Berkeley said today it would join edX, the nonprofit online learning joint venture between Harvard and MIT, with two computer science courses to be offered this fall. What’s interesting is that Berkeley professors are already teaching three computer science courses on another online learning platform, the for-profit...

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Mr. Berners Lee. (flickr.com/tanaka) A hacker group called SwaggSec broke into Foxconn and released internal passwords and server logins, encouraging people to place fake orders [9to5mac] Tim Berners Lee testifies in Texas patent case in which a patent-licensing company called Eolas and the University of California want royalty payments from just...

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Hot social media service Pinterest has hired Facebook Corporate Communications Director Barry Schnitt to lead communications and public policy, according to an AllThingsD report. Pinterest recently raised $100 million in new funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. That money appears to be going toward hiring people like Schnitt, and...

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Nosang Myung, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has created an electronic 'nose' using nanotechnology, which he says could be integrated into portable technology like cellphones to 'smell' harmful airborne substances. Applications for the tech don't stop there, though: the same tech could also be used to...

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Plenty of colleges and universities have their own YouTube channels, but the University of California is claiming its new channel UCTV Prime will be the first university-run YouTube original channel. When it launches on March 1st, UCTV Prime will offer 15 minutes of original programming every week — there...

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The total number of fatalities from auto accidents in California has fallen by 22 percent since the 2008 law banning hand-held cellphone use behind the wheel. This statistic comes courtesy of a study conducted by the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at Berkeley, University of California, which...

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A patent-trolling firm called Eolas, working together with the University of California, took a notorious patent to trial in East Texas earlier this year, trying to win close to $1 billion from Internet companies including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and others. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, actually...